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Friday was the first time the city had seen a dust storm since May 10, 1934, which was during the first wave of the Dust Bowl ...
But one of the exceptions to that was the migration out of the southern plains area that was called the Dust Bowl Migration: 300,000 or 400,000 people from Oklahoma and surrounding states moving ...
Route 66 holds a special place in American history, especially during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. When severe ...
The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the ...
The state of Oklahoma lost 440,000 people to migration. About 250,000 of them moved to California. By the end of 1939, regular rainfall returned to the region, bringing an end to the Dust Bowl era.
If you live in El Paso, Las Cruces, or Ciudad Juárez and feel like you’ve been inhaling the Chihuahuan Desert lately, you’re ...
My family lost our farm in the Dust Bowl: a brutal decade in which the combination of poor land management and drought robbed much of the Great Plains of its topsoil. For nine decades now ...
during the Dust Bowl, which engulfed large swaths of Mid-America and Texas According to data compiled by Gill, El Paso had its windiest March, when this year's dust storms started, since 1964 ...